Mrs. Nobles before marriage was Elizabeth Post. They
had three sons and six daughters. Mr. Nobles was a tanner
by trade, also a shoemaker. Charles F. Nobles, a son, was
a blacksmith. He married Sarah Fanny Winn in October,
1818. She was the daughter of Abraham Winn, and was born
July 24th, 1795, in Ontario county, New York. She was a
noble woman, with great energy. They reared a large family
of sons and daughters. Mr. Charles F. Nobles died in 1870.
Mrs. Nobles died November 24th, 1890, aged ninety-five years,
four months.
Lewis Nobles, son of Shubael Nobles, married Betsy
Strausburg. He was noted as an ingenious mechanic. He
died May 26th, 1887, aged sixty-seven years, eleven months,
seven days. His wife died March 1st, 1897, in her seventy-
sixth year of age.
Osmar Nobles was never married, but lived on the old farm.
Silas Nobles went to Indiana, married and died there.
Abigail Nobles, daughter of Shubael Nobles, was married
to Phineas Matthews, of Gallia county. Julia married Jacob
A. Winn, lived in Rutland and died in 1882, at the age of
eighty-five years. Eliza was married to Jacob Swisher and
lived in Gallia county.
Esther Nobles was married to Abel Chase, of Rutland, Ohio.
She was born March 26th, 1808. Eunice Nobles died March
17th, 1878, aged seventy-eight years. Mary Nobles died in
Rutland, aged sixty-one years. Shubael Nobles, Sr., died in
1854, aged ninety-one years. His wife died in 1855, aged
eighty-eight years.
William Parker, second, was born in Newburyport, Massa-
chusetts, July 4th, 1775, and came to Marietta with his father,
William Parker, first, in 1798. He married Betsy Wyatt,
daughter of Deacon Joshua Wyatt, of Athens county, May
13th, 1802, and they came to Rutland, Ohio, in 1804, and
